![]() ![]() It’s a clever design - one that will ease you into Atmos with minimal pain. When speaker wire is run from the receiver to a secondary pair of binding posts on the tower, an electrical connection is made to the top-mounted module. The company’s cable management solution for the BP9000 series provides a socket on the tower’s top surface that you plug the speaker module into. Left and right Dolby Atmos®-enabled speakers. How will you hook things up for Atmos? Definitive Technology’s A90 Atmos Enabled speaker modules are designed for seamless integration with the company’s BP9060, BP9040, and BP9020 tower speakers. When setting up your speakers use the charts and the downloadable PDF found on this page to help guide you. The Denon X4800H has 9 powered channels leaving you to choose between 5.x.4 and 7.x.2. That feature allows you to connect a separate stereo amp to the receiver’s preamp output, and then use the amp to power a second set of overhead speakers - or Atmos Enabled speaker modules - in a 7.1.4 Atmos setup. To optimize the Dolby Atmos high-end speaker system, I perform the following steps when setting up an AV receiver or amplifier: Adjust the speaker placement (for example, 5.1.2 or 7.1.4). There is more than one option for the top-layer though (e.g the dolby-layout, Auro3D-layout or, much less common, the DTS-X layout or anything in between that suits the room the best) and fiddling around can make quite a difference. This refers to the number of traditional surround speakers (front, center, surround, etc.) 7.1. A 5.1.4 or 7.1.4 system uses four ceiling speakers. SPEAKER PLACEMENT FOR 7.1.4 SETUP PERSPECTIVE DETAIL FOR 7.1.4 SETUP This number refers to how many powered subwoofers you can connect to your receiver. A 5.1.2 or 7.1.2 system uses two ceiling speakers, or two Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers or modules. Dolby Atmos speaker layouts parallel the 5.1 and 7.1 setups for surround sound. ![]() So, I know what the full Atmos treatment can do for a good movie or well-mixed spatial music track. Whichever you choose, our setup guides will show you how to arrange your speakers for the best possible experience. I run an AV receiver-based 5.1.4 Atmos/DTS:X system in my basement theater with ceiling-mounted height speakers. While some 9.2 channel models are only capable of handling a 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos configuration, other models like Yamaha’s RX-A3070 provide 11.2 processing. That said, my deepest yearning for my Arc system has always been for it to deliver a full-field Dolby Atmos experience. Ĭertain 9.2-channel receivers offer another option. The cost for those receivers ranges from around $1500 for the Denon AVR-X6300H to $3500 for the Anthem MRX 1120. Waymon FrenchĪ Denon, Marantz, Onkyo, and Anthem all make 11.2-channel receivers capable of fully powering a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos speaker configuration. Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at What receivers can power a Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 home theater? I plan to pair the receiver with a tower-based Definitive Technology BP9000 series speaker system and use that company’s A90 Atmos Enabled speaker modules for overhead effects.
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